Fly-catcher.



H. WIEGAND & G. W. KRONENBERG.

FLY GATGHER.

APPLICATION TILED we. 5. 1908.

9 1 9, 507, Patented Apr. 27, 1909.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY WIEGAND AND CHARLES W. KRONENBERG, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNORS OF ONE- THIRD TO CHARLES A. KEARNS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

FLY-CATCHER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 27, 1909.

Application filed August 5, 1908. Serial No. 447,033.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, HENRY WVIEGAND and CHARLES W. KRONENBERG, citizens, re spectively, of the United States and German and both residents of New York city, Manhattan, county and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in F ly-Catchers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a fly catcher which presents an extensive adhesive surface to the insects, and permits such surface to be readily covered up during shipment.

In the accompanying drawing: Figure 1 is a perspective view of our improved fly catcher; Fig. 2 a cross section on line 22 Fig. 1, with the adhesive sheet covered, and Fig. 3 a similar section with the adhesive sheet uncovered.

The 'fly catcher consists essentially of a base or stand 10, made in the form of a hollow cone, with an upturned flange to form a drip trough 11. The stand may be either suspended by means of a hook 12, passing through its apex, or it may be supported upon a table. An adhesive foldable sheet of sector-shape, and of a size to encompass stand 10, is by a radial line 13, divided into two equal sector-shaped flaps 14, 15. Of these, flap 14 is pasted to stand 10, while flap 15 is loose or disconnected therefrom, so that it may be folded either upon the face of flap 14, or upon the uncovered half of stand 10. From lower corner of flap 15, extends laterally an unadhesive finger piece 16, which has a perforation 17 adapted to engage a catch 18 projecting from stand 10 near the lower corner of flap 14. During shipment, flap 15 is folded or doubled upon flap 14, (Fig. 2), where it is held by the action of the adhesive, such adhesive being thereby entirely covered up.

When the device is to be put into operation, flap 15, by finger-piece 16, is rolled oil flap 14, laid around the uncovered half of stand 10, (Fig. 3), and secured in position by engagement of catch 18 withperforation 17. During this manipulation any objectionable wrinkling of the loose flap is prevented, because its sector shape insures its ready contact with the top of the cone, while the finger hold at the free corner of its base permits the body of the sheet to be held taut during the entire unrolling operation. In this way the entire surface of the stand is surrounded by the adhesive sheet, so that an extensive entrapping area is presented to the insects.

As the cones are not sticky during transportation, a large number of them may be nested, so that space is economized.

We claim: 7

1. A fly catcher comprising a coniform stand, and a foldable adhesive sheet having a first sector shaped flap secured to the stand, a second loose sector shaped flap, and means for securing said second flap to the stand.

2. A fly catcher comprising a coniform stand, a foldable adhesive sheet having a first sector shaped flap secured to the stand, a second loose sector shaped flap, and a finger piece projecting from the base of said second flap.

HENRY WIEGAND. CHARLES l/V. KRONENBERG.

Witnesses:

FRANK v. BRIESEN, CHAs. A. KEARNS. 

